Python regex look-behind requires fixed-width pattern

Question

When trying to extract the title of a html-page I have always used the following regex:

(?<=)([\\s\\S]*)(?=)

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Answer 1

The regex for extracting the content of non-nested HTML/XML tags is actually very simple:

r = re.compile(']*>(.*?)')

However, for anything more complex, you should really use a proper DOM parser like urllib or BeautifulSoup.